The Daily News FRIDAY, AUGUST 3.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8172, 3 August 1906, Page 2

The Daily News FRIDAY, AUGUST 3.

There are in the Parliament of iNew Zcaland, live members whose fathers took part in the Maori wars.

The Recreation Grounds Board will hold its annual fireworks display during the summer mouths. The materials are already to hand from Home. During the past season about 9,000 bullocks, 2,000 cows, :J,OOO pigs, and 15,0J0 sheep were put through Messrs Borlhwieh and Sons' Waitara Freezing Works.

The Stratford Dairy Company has accepted the oiler of Messrs Pearson aud Rutter for the season's output, but the price has not been divulged. The same firm handled the Stratford butter |last year.

A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held this afternoon at

four o'clock, to 'leal with alterations

to streets and levels, and other matters arising in conneclion with the New Plymouth railway deviation. Public meetings held at Patca, Opunake, aud Normanby, and addressed by Mr Milonc, decided to support the seheme of haying Taranaki represented at the Exhibition, and committees were set up at each place to further the obiecf.

At Lepperton the otlier day an elderly lady resideit of Lepperton met willi a dual accident. She was thrown from a vehicle and had somp ot her ribs broken. Going to the doctor's she was thrown out a second time, this time sustaining internal injuries. She now lies in a precarious condition.

A Press wire to this office last night mentions that Thursday's "New Zealand Herald," referring to the dotation of the Taranaki Oil and Freeliold Company, says that forty-three people, taking up over a thousand shares, applied on Tuesday to Mr V. J. Lamer,at the Stock Exchange, Auckland, to become shareholders in the Taranaki Oil and Freehold Company, now in course of dotation.

On Thursday morning Mr Murphy, residing in Devon-street, near the Post Office, observed Humes rising from the rear portion of a dwelling occupied by Mr Power and Mr Duller, oppjsile the Bank of Australasia. He g>ivc the alarm, ami aroused the inmates. The fire brigade, prompt on the scene, soon subdued the llames, which were in dangerous proximity to the White Hart Hotel. A high wind was blowing at the lime, but forlunately the front portion of the building, which is of two storeys, protected the burning singlestoreyed part behind. The loss and damage io the occupiers is about £3O or £lO. Mr Oxeuham, of Tatar.umaka, is the owner of the building, which is insured in the South British.

The foliowmg message to the people ..f Great. Bril tin was obtained from Mr Scddon a few. lours before his sudden death by til-' Sydney representee (J the" British-Australasian" :—" Ask the British Government to take care of the colonies. The Commonwealth and New Zealand Governments are incensed at, the Imperial Government Conference living condition-, of a dual protectorate in the New Hebrides without first consulting the colonies so deeply interested. The Imperial GjV.riiimn! call upon us now for advice on what is already decided, making i.ur dillieuitics very great. The entire subject is of vital importance to the Commonwealth, and New Zealand. We ought to have been represented sil' the ('ji|fe;':';ice If anybody hid been there fur ijs wliu knew nn.vthiu.' about the subject, the result ,v .uld hive been very different. Whoever represented Britain, French diplomacy was too much for them. I cannot honorably say anything farther; my hands and tongue are tied by the Imperial Government; bat f wish J had the power of Joshua to make the sun stand still."